Chandrayaan 3
What goals does Chandrayaan-3 hope to achieve?
- As part of the Chandrayaan-3 project, the Chandrayaan-2 mission, which was launched in July 2019 with the goal of putting a rover on the lunar South Pole, is being carried out.
A brief summary of Chandrayaan 2:
- A lander, an orbiter, and a rover made up Chandrayaan-2; each was outfitted with tools for studying the moon.
- While the Lander and Rover modules were to be torn apart to execute a gentle landing on the moon’s surface, the Orbiter was to study the moon from a 100-km orbit.
- The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) gave the Lander and Rover modules the names Vikram and Pragyaan in honour of Vikram Sarabhai, the inventor of India’s space programme.
the use of the orbiter
- The mission’s Orbiter component has been operating efficiently. There are eight instruments on board.
- Each of these devices has generated a significant amount of information that provides new insight into the moon and provides knowledge that could be applied to future research.
- Following the eventual failure of the Vikram lander, a new mission was developed to show off the landing procedures required for the jointly planned Japanese-led lunar polar exploration mission in 2024.
- Only four of the lander’s engines will be able to be throttled for Chandrayaan-3.
- In contrast to Chandrayaan-2, Vikram featured five 800N engines, one of which was positioned in the middle and had a fixed thrust.
- The Chandrayaan-3 Lander will also be equipped with a Laser Doppler Velocimeter (LDV).
Mission of Chandrayaan-1:
- The Chandrayaan-1 project, which was launched in October 2008, was ISRO’s first exploration mission to the moon or any heavenly body in space.
- The mission’s onboard instrumentation was only intended for simple lunar orbital data collecting.
- When Chandrayaan-1 orbited the moon at a distance of 100 kilometres, it came the closest to the moon.
